Guild Wars 2

hurrrr durrr the forum second page bug strikes again!

okies i gave it another go since it is saturday morning (gmt +8:00)

9.56am entered solo arena queue
9.59am found match
10.00am game ended
around 9 minutes game

temple of the silent storm
red 207 – 500 blue
49 guardian 105 – 205 engineer 54
52 ranger 85 – 150 mesmer 44
33 war (me) 80 – 145 necro 34
64 thief 35 – 115 warrior 55
53 war 35 – 105 guardian 56

our red team rank 64 thief seems to read the forums, i think.

me: hi team!
64 thief: 6th soloQ?
me: aah no.
me: 9th!
64 thief: close lol

ok i think we got beaten up real badly.
my warrior got melted away many times. i think their necromancer, engineer haz brutal condition damage.

so this is what happens to my warrior for not using berserker stance. O_O

okay i can’t write anymore. wife aggro. she mad.
we’re going out soon and i need to do my morning routine in the toilet.

nothing much to write off also since it would be mostly about how i got melted by conditions.

errrr thanks for reading!

Bravo good sir, bravo!

What is the point of this thread?

SonofNoob,
ah, thanks!

Red Raven,
well, it is a place for me to record my adventures in the solo arena.

for quite a while, a lot of people have been saying warriors are overpowered, especially healing signet. i tried to tell them otherwise, saying that warriors are not overpowered, and will melt easily.

i expressed myself that i am a casual player and only play in hotjoin 8 vs 8 games, very seldom in solo arena. then they said my opinion does not matter because hotjoin is a mess, with more players, it is more easier to burst down anyone in there.

then they said warriors are more powerful in 5 vs 5 solo arena or team arena. where 1vs1 or 2vs2 situation are more frequent, and that’s when the warrior will appear to be overpowered, because not enough people around to burst down the warrior.

so, curious i am, decided to give solo arena a try.
before i made this topic, i have not played in solo arena since the reset.

today, i have played a total of 9th solo arena games, i heard that we need a total of 11 games in order to have our names appear in the leaderboards.

so that means 2 more solo arena games for me.

by the way, does that answer your question?

eh, i thought i only have 9 solo arena games since the reset?
how come got another 3 more games? O_O

i’m visible in the solo arena ladderboard finally yay!

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/soloarena?page=2

edit:
does this mean the 3 games i had earlier before the reset are counted as well?

i think, before the reset, i had 1 win, and 2 loses.
so, add up to after reset, 7 wins, 2 loses.

total, 8 wins, 4 loses?

It sort of does.

But honestly, the only 1v1 scenarios that should happen in team tourneys are between a roamer and a home point defender.

This type of thing is really hard to talk about though, because the sPvP scene is designed to be balanced around 5v5, not 1v1. It really depends on how good your teammates are and how bad the enemy team is.

Certain builds counter other builds. That’s just the way it is. That’s how I view most Warrior QQ threads as right now. Obviously that warrior must have been running a build that countered your build and instead of trying to understand how they can beat the build AS A TEAM (remember, this is a TEAM based game) they instead cry wolf and blame the class.

There’s also the instance where a specific build will counter the meta. The usual forum response to this is “NERF NERF NERF!” What most casual players fail to understand right now is that the meta needs to evolve constantly and that a change in the meta is not a bad thing.

Warrior isn’t OP, people just haven’t found the counter to it yet. Or they already have found the counter to it but aren’t used to how other teams utilize the warrior differently and that they are only prepared for a HamBow warrior for example.

Imo D/P Thief and teams running double Mesmers are fantastic counters to warriors.

Red Raven,
ooo i see! thanks for explaining it to me in detail ya!

ah, double mesmers! in my 8th solo arena game (since the reset) the other team had 2 mesmers! hmmm no wonder our team lost ehhehehe.

well, i realized that my warrior without stances will melt very quickly.

the quick breathing from 2 warhorn skills will only be useful against 1 or 2 conditions thrown at my warrior but not 10 conditions all at once, along with various other kinds of damage from other sources during team battles.

arghhh it is time for my warrior to try out the mighty hammer and the zerker stance!

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

since everyone is saying how overpowered warrior is, i decided to send my warrior into solo arena to check out how he will fare.

i have not done any solo arena since the reset so my MMR must be default.

anyway, after a few minutes, a game came, it was 5 vs 5 on temple of the silent storm. whee!

red team 243 – 501 blue team
41 thief 80 – 190 guardian 9
11 engi 70 – 180 mesmer 16
12 ele 55 – 175 warrior (me) 32
9 ele 40 – 145 mesmer 19
15 ele 20 – 120 thief 7

will play more solo arena and see what i get.

the scores was kinda close at start, around 125 vs 125 like that, but then i think they gave up half way.

Judging an ENTIRE game mode from one match? You need a break from forums mang your going crazy :P

aussieheals.6843:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

since everyone is saying how overpowered warrior is, i decided to send my warrior into solo arena to check out how he will fare.

i have not done any solo arena since the reset so my MMR must be default.

anyway, after a few minutes, a game came, it was 5 vs 5 on temple of the silent storm. whee!

red team 243 – 501 blue team
41 thief 80 – 190 guardian 9
11 engi 70 – 180 mesmer 16
12 ele 55 – 175 warrior (me) 32
9 ele 40 – 145 mesmer 19
15 ele 20 – 120 thief 7

will play more solo arena and see what i get.

the scores was kinda close at start, around 125 vs 125 like that, but then i think they gave up half way.

Judging an ENTIRE game mode from one match? You need a break from forums mang your going crazy :P

nah. that was my 1st solo arena game since the reset (i had 3 solo arena games before the reset, 1 win, 2 loses) and today i had my 8th and 9th solo arena game.

my 1st solo arena game since the reset was 17 days ago.

i only played 9 solo arena games in 17 days.
i’m a casual player! i dun have that many hours to play guild wars 2.

Forgetful Phil.6370:

So as of 15:40 GMT, Deimos is rank 30 on NA leaderboards. Congrats! Ironically, this probably places you higher than most people telling you to soloQ.

What are peoples opinions of this & warriors?

Enjoyed the blog btw, keep it up.

aaah thanks!
ehheeh i was 27 when i checked the leaderboards this morning (gmt+8:00 my time) and i was surprised. i did not realize the 3 solo arena games i played before the reset is taken into account as well.

well, as for their opinion, i think they will say, “warriors are indeed overpowered because even a casual deimos can reach top 50” or something like that? O_O

but i think if i play more solo games, loses more, i will drop back to where i really belong in the leaderboards.

the first 7 games i think i was very lucky. i was not using hambow also.
8th and 9th games my warrior melted away very quickly. especially the 9th game.
8th game i think still okay.

this inspired me to make an asuran warrior (i already got 2 asuran, need 1 more to cover all the stories, i.e. i got 16 character slots, i think 15 should be enough to cover all the racial personal stories) and train her in 5 vs 5 hotjoin arenas using hammer and long bow. then i equipped her with berserker stance, lyssa runes etc. wanna see how powerful as many people claimed this to be.

hmmm here’s my new build if anyone is curious
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJASTjkOBvxQqQMxBE0DNsK4C1D7YDjjUBxA-TwAA0CnIKSVkrITRyisFNKYFyJkXIA

i have not tried that out in my 10th solo arena (after reset) yet.
tested it out in 5 vs 5 hotjoins though. still need more practice!

he got to 30 not because warrior is op but because the leaderboards are an awful joke. 8 wins 4 losses put you in top 30? seriously? rofl this game is bad beyond words can describe.

ahuba.6430:

he got to 30 not because warrior is op but because the leaderboards are an awful joke. 8 wins 4 losses put you in top 30? seriously? rofl this game is bad beyond words can describe.

yalor. the leaderboard is broken!

okies! i’m back!

done 10th solo arena game, trying out hambow for first time in solo arena.

gmt +8:00 sunday morning
8.44am entered solo arena queue
8.49am found match
9.01am match ended
around 10 minutes match

spirit watch
red 403 – 504 blue
53 ranger 90 – 180 mesmer 47
33 war (me) 80 – 155 engineer 40
49 thief 65 – 120 engineer 52
12 engineer 45 – 115 mesmer 46
61 ranger 10 – 105 ele 62

hmmm i think the hambow is strong, but still not really godlike against good players. i think our team did okay, just that the other team is much better. look at their personal scores hahahahah so much higher than ours!

this time, there are no other heavies besides myself, and the team without heavies won the match. well overall they had higher ranked team members, while on our team, there is a rank 33 (me) and a rank 12.

okies since its sunday morning (gmt +8:00) lets give it another go.
enter solo arena queue 9.09am
9.11am found match! i’m off! wish me luck!
legacy of the forefire! no more sneaking off alone to guild lord!

thanks for reading!

Is this like your personal journal or something?

Alphabet.7392:

Is this like your personal journal or something?

well, it is a place where i record my solo arena battle adventures!
so far i have done 11 solo arena games since the reset.

well that was fast.

sunday morning gmt +8:00
9.09am entered solo arena queue
9.11am found match
9.20am match ended
7 minutes match !
11th solo arena game!

red 528 – 188 blue
44 necro 150 – 165 mesmer 45
43 warr 120 – 120 warrior (me) 33
45 guardian 110 – 100 warrior 53
45 thief 65 – 90 elementalist 47
41 mesmer 55 – 80 guardian 32

it is 9.48am now. the washing machine finished washing my clothes so i had to take the clothes out to dry.

hmmm okay lets see if there is anything to report this time

me: hi team!
me: lets protect our gates
me: ok waterfall gate safe
(both teams did not abuse the foefire gates bug though)

rank 53 warrior: focus on home and far
rank 53 warrior: watch mini map
me: ok!
rank 53 warrior: ill get home
me: do we rush ord at 350 ?
rank 53 warrior: probably not
me: ok!
rank 53 warrior: last resort

(10 seconds to match start)
me: gl hf team!
me: do we charge mid?
me: no?
rank 53 warrior: yes
me: ok

nothing from the rest of our blue team mates.

so i charged into mid, rank 53 warrior went for home i guess. cos a short while later he said “2 home” hmmm i really should enable time stamp in the chat.

9.14am, scores were red 22 – 0 blue that is like around 1 minute into the game.
9.16 am, 2-3 minutes into the game, scores red 152 – 58 blue. red team were simply better at killing us and holding the points. >.<

hmmm i had a 1 vs 1 fight with their mesmer at quarry, he can’t seem to put down my warrior and my warrior can put down the mesmer eventually but the fight got interrupted, red team members came, i was put down rather quickly by various red team members.

another time, i was trying to cap quarry again, (is quarry red team’s home point? seems to be! kitten i am so blur! O_O) their thief noticed me and began assaulting my back side. wow that hurt a lot. by the time i reached the quarry point my warrior was almost dead. another few more strokes my warrior is down.

however, our blue team’s mesmer came and revived me, the thief was down shortly as well, i guess my combustion shot and hammer weakened the thief enough.

in team fights, lone red team members go down quickly, well, strength in numbers, but that does not matter since red team was leading a lot.

when red team had around 350 points, they started attacking our lord. i guess we blue team members kinda gave up and ignored the “LORD IS UNDER ATTACK” and just waited for the game to end.

so far all my games on foefire were loses.
hmmmm … need more practice!

well that’s it for now i guess.

thanks for reading!

edit:
whee i’m 231 in the leaderboards now!

8 wins (1 win before reset)
6 loses (2 loses before reset)

okies i am back for another report!
my 12th solo arena game!

i met chicago jack !!! in my team!
and harbringer too! wow he’s a top 10 solo arena player! O_O

anyway,

11,33am entered solo arena queue
found match in less than a minute
11.44am match ended
around 11 minutes game.

forest animal map
red 303 – 501 blue
47 thief 170 – 150 warrior 57
59 necrro 130 – 85 necro 42
55 guardian 105 – 75 mesmer 63
33 warr (me) 75 – 50 necro 49
43 necro 0 – 35 warrior 23

11.39am, 4 mins into the match, our rank 43 necro disconnected, scores were red 113 – 172 blue though. they beat me up real badly. >.<

hmmm ok lets look at the chat log. not much chatter. except for jack i think.

me: hi team!
(le me checking out their user id)

me: jack !!!
rank 47 thief: kaurlx, cap home, everyone els go mid. don’t take animal till we have 2 points.

me: chicago jack !!1 hello !!!
me: its me deimos the casual player!
(i was using my asuran warrior named “Nira Rior Tel Arin” in that game)

rank 47 thief: i’ll push via beach to see if there are anyone pushing our home.
rank 47 thief: oh god
rank 59 necro: o.O

me: ok pls tell me what to do
me: i’ll try my best
rank 47 thief: go mid
me: ok i go mid
rank 47 thief: if i call out a push on home, go home
rank 47 thief: actually no
rank 47 thief: i’ll take care of it
me: i stay mid?
rank 47 thief: just stay at mid
rank 47 thief: hold 2 points, then take animal.
11.35am me: ok! i will try my best! i trying out hambow now!

11.36am rank 47 thief: 2 home
11.36am rank 47 thief: 2 home
11.36am rank 47 thief: someone go home
11.37am me: ow sorry the necro melted me O_O
(lich form necro bursted me down with auto attack O_O i tried to flee but the necro gave chase, kept on pew pew me until dead O_O)

11.40am me: ok what i do now? O_O
(i capped mid, alone, dunno what to do. i think i wandered off somewhere later)

(our disconnected necro came back)
11.41am rank 59 necro: stupid nec
11.41am rank 59 necro: ty for 4 vs 5

11.43 am rank 43 necro: shut up noob im laggin and that keeps kicking me
11.43 am rank 59 necro: noob
11.43 am rank 43 necro: but ill sleep here just for u

(match ended)
11.44am me: o sorry jack, i tried >.<

okies it is lunch time, i need to take me mum out for lunch.

thanks for reading!

sorry jack !!!
sorry harbringer !!!
sorry kaurlx !!!

>.<

ok rank 431 now.
8 wins
7 loses

sounds more reasonable.

see, i said warriors are not overpowered.

You have nothing to be sorry about. 4v5 happens, nothing you can do about it. The necro was obviously having an issue with his connection. No need to rage at him. You win some you lose some. No big deal.

Harbinger.8637:

You have nothing to be sorry about. 4v5 happens, nothing you can do about it. The necro was obviously having an issue with his connection. No need to rage at him. You win some you lose some. No big deal.

oooo !! hey !!! thanks for dropping by! XD
ooo i was not raging at the necro though.

well, i guess i am sorry for not being good enough?
i.e. dead weight to the team. >.<

i dun think my skill level is intended to participate in that match, anyway, i have dropped down to leaderboard rank 400+ now.

i need more practice yarghhh.
seems like my map awareness skill is still low.

Deimos, you win some you lose some. I think the journal is cute and I’m glad you’re playing something other than hotjoin, but c’mon man. If your trying to “catalog” your personal adventures to make a point about warriors, the point is going to be moot.

Red Raven.7824:

Imo D/P Thief and teams running double Mesmers are fantastic counters to warriors.

So you think a thief and two mesmers, 3 out of 5 players, should be on a team to counter warriors? Do you have any clue how terrible that idea is? The problem with running more than 1 thief or 1 mesmer on a team is that they don’t hold points. They have absolutely no sustain. Their role is to be able to easily force 2v1’s via their mobility, and can easily peel from fights. People say that they are great at 1v1’s, but they’re pretty terrible against anything that has more sustain than them, actually. The only 1v1’s they should be doing, if at all, is against other squishy roamers. Pit a typical thief up against a typical spirit ranger on far, the thief will always have to peel away or die on far point – losing the match to the team. It’s one of the reasons why S/D thieves was so favorable (it has that extra sustain, high mobility, high sustain damage, and can contest points, though its sustain was reduced quite a bit after dec 10th patch) and why it was one of the banes of mesmer’s existence. The moment the team, who is running more than one or the other, runs into another team of equal skill who is running with a class that has more sustain, they will be at a disadvantage.

Chicago Jack.5647:

Red Raven.7824:

Imo D/P Thief and teams running double Mesmers are fantastic counters to warriors.

So you think a thief and two mesmers, 3 out of 5 players, should be on a team to counter warriors? Do you have any clue how terrible that idea is? The problem with running more than 1 thief or 1 mesmer on a team is that they don’t hold points. They have absolutely no sustain. Their role is to be able to easily force 2v1’s via their mobility, and can easily peel from fights. People say that they are great at 1v1’s, but they’re pretty terrible against anything that has more sustain than them, actually. The only 1v1’s they should be doing, if at all, is against other squishy roamers. Pit a typical thief up against a typical spirit ranger on far, the thief will always have to peel away or die on far point – losing the match to the team. It’s one of the reasons why S/D thieves was so favorable (it has that extra sustain, high mobility, high sustain damage, and can contest points, though its sustain was reduced quite a bit after dec 10th patch) and why it was one of the banes of mesmer’s existence. The moment the team, who is running more than one or the other, runs into another team of equal skill who is running with a class that has more sustain, they will be at a disadvantage.

I feel like you took this entirely wrong.

I didn’t mean for there to be specifically a Thief and 2 Mesmers on a team. I was merely suggesting that, in my experience, teams that are running 2 Mesmers OR a D/P Thief give me problems.

Also, with the new healing sig the Mesmers have aquired they’ve gained plenty of sustain, OBVIOUSLY not as much sustain as Warrior, BUT with the combination of sustain+clones+stealth it can cause a lot of trouble for a Warrior. D/P Thief on the other hand should be basic knowledge as why it’s a direct counter to a DPS Warrior build because of thief’s blind spam and spike damage to counter healing signet. D/P is also the current cookie cutter build.

Red Raven.7824:

Chicago Jack.5647:

Red Raven.7824:

Imo D/P Thief and teams running double Mesmers are fantastic counters to warriors.

So you think a thief and two mesmers, 3 out of 5 players, should be on a team to counter warriors? Do you have any clue how terrible that idea is? The problem with running more than 1 thief or 1 mesmer on a team is that they don’t hold points. They have absolutely no sustain. Their role is to be able to easily force 2v1’s via their mobility, and can easily peel from fights. People say that they are great at 1v1’s, but they’re pretty terrible against anything that has more sustain than them, actually. The only 1v1’s they should be doing, if at all, is against other squishy roamers. Pit a typical thief up against a typical spirit ranger on far, the thief will always have to peel away or die on far point – losing the match to the team. It’s one of the reasons why S/D thieves was so favorable (it has that extra sustain, high mobility, high sustain damage, and can contest points, though its sustain was reduced quite a bit after dec 10th patch) and why it was one of the banes of mesmer’s existence. The moment the team, who is running more than one or the other, runs into another team of equal skill who is running with a class that has more sustain, they will be at a disadvantage.

I feel like you took this entirely wrong.

I didn’t mean for there to be specifically a Thief and 2 Mesmers on a team. I was merely suggesting that, in my experience, teams that are running 2 Mesmers OR a D/P Thief give me problems.

Also, with the new healing sig the Mesmers have aquired they’ve gained plenty of sustain, OBVIOUSLY not as much sustain as Warrior, BUT with the combination of sustain+clones+stealth it can cause a lot of trouble for a Warrior. D/P Thief on the other hand should be basic knowledge as why it’s a direct counter to a DPS Warrior build because of thief’s blind spam and spike damage to counter healing signet. D/P is also the current cookie cutter build.

magic toker plays S/P trickery

Vanish plays S/D trickery.

Sizer plays S/D acro

Shad & Caed play D/P trickery

I play S/P trickery

there’re different viable builds currently, tough i believe trickery builds are better by a long shot, but it’s just my opinion.

Still thieves are really not that strong as people claim them to be.

Chicago Jack.5647:

Deimos, you win some you lose some. I think the journal is cute and I’m glad you’re playing something other than hotjoin, but c’mon man. If your trying to “catalog” your personal adventures to make a point about warriors, the point is going to be moot.

hmmmm okies!
thanks for the feedback!

in that case, i’ll just stick to chronicling my solo arena adventures and not make a point about warriors since you said it would be moot.

okies, i have done another solo arena. i think it would be my 13th solo arena game!

temple of the silent storm
05.22 so around 10 minutes game
red 502 – 365 blue
41 necro 195 – 150 thief 39
53 ranger 110 – 90 warrior (me) 33
48 engineer 70 – 70 necro 28
43 engineer 70 – 70 engineer 50
34 warrior 50 – 45 engineer 19

i switched to soldiers amulet + soldiers jewel, and full x6 dolyak armor runes so my warrior have more health now, around 26k. replaced balanced stance with dolyak signet instead. died less now, will still die if too many people focus on my warrior.

but if not focused down i can keep on alternating combustion shot and earthshaker. it kinda feel good.

after 13th solo arena games since the reset, 7 win streaks, followed by 6 lose streaks, i feel the match making is doing its job properly eheheheh. like many people said, most average players will have an average 50% win percentage.

anyway, solo arena is indeed a different experience when compared against hotjoin 8 vs 8 mess, but, in the end, i think i will enjoy hotjoin 8 vs 8 more than solo arena 5 vs 5 though. as for healing signet, after seeing jon’s reply in the healing signet topic:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PvP-Warrior-Healing-Signet-is-Too-Powerful/3480553

Also we will not greatly reduce it because it is giving Warriors a sense of sturdiness that we want their profession to have. Without strong heals, Warriors feel too much like everyone else. Setting them apart with strong heals has been good for changing their playstyle feel, but we agree it needs some tweaks.

i understand that there will be changes to healing signet, but they will not neuter it completely, so i guess i wun be “campaigning” for healing signet anymore.

anyway, now leaderboard
rank 687
8 wins
8 loses

well, that’s it for now.

thanks for reading!

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

after 13th solo arena games since the reset, 7 win streaks, followed by 6 lose streaks, i feel the match making is doing its job properly eheheheh. like many people said, most average players will have an average 50% win percentage.

No, it’s not. I don’t think rollercoasting through LB is that healthy.

And not average players: ALL players should have an average 50% win percentage. This because you should be pitted against players of your level.

redslion.9675:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

after 13th solo arena games since the reset, 7 win streaks, followed by 6 lose streaks, i feel the match making is doing its job properly eheheheh. like many people said, most average players will have an average 50% win percentage.

No, it’s not. I don’t think rollercoasting through LB is that healthy.

And not average players: ALL players should have an average 50% win percentage. This because you should be pitted against players of your level.

oooo okies! i should play more solo arena games then in that case.

anyway, just did my 14th solo arena game!

monday blues morning gmt+8:00
8.30am entered solo arena queue
found match in less than a minute
8.43am match ended.
around 10 minutes match

skyhammer
red 501 – 328 blue
25 necro 199 – 165 necro 40
34 necro 170 – 135 mesmer 39
33 war (me) 135 – 106 engineer 9
37 thief 110 – 100 thief 40
36 engineer 91 – 87 engineer 20

ya finally a win! after 6 losing streaks over the weekends heheeh.

this time, our team had good communication, i think.

8.31am
me: hi team!
36 engi: hi
34 nec: hi
25 nec: heya
me: whats our plan, team?
34 nec: i can grab home
36 engi: hold points keep hammer
me: ok i charge mid B then

8.32am
37 thief: i’ll beromaing..
36 engi: two engi son other team so watch out for pulls
(fortunately, for the rest of the match, i did not get pulled)
me: ooo okies!
me: gl hf team! lets do this!
37 thief: XD

8.33am me: thanks hammer
(red 35 – 6 blue, we just cleared mid B thanks to hammer fire power support)

8.34am 37 thief: thnsk jeebus XD

8.35am 36 engi: incoming home 2

8.36am
me: o sowee i lost mid
(i got outnumbered, i tried to flee, they chased me and put me down)
25 nec: lost hammer

8.37am me: i try far

8.38am
34 nec: they over commit to C
34 nec: should have B and A
37 thief: yup
25 nec: i got hamme

8.39am
me: i got far
37 thief: C is fine
25 nec: lsot
(lost control of skyhammer)

8.40am
me: ok i fled from C
me: i m ean A
(i went to B to help)

8.42am
me: i fled from B, now tryinb A
me: k i go bcak to B

8.43am
me: thanks team!
me: yay!
map chat blue team 9 engi: gg
(i noticed the blue team 9 engi was next to me at B, we both stopped fighting, i /bow)
me bows
blue team 9 engi bows

hmmmm overall, an enjoyable match for my tiny asuran warrior “Nira Rior Tel Arin” since errr well
1. did not die too often, i think just once.
2. did not go down too fast.
3. can win 1 vs 1 encounter in their home point A with their engineer
4. can survive long enough and escape from a 2 vs 1 situation
5. won the match

i think that’s the order of things that makes me happy in a match. win or lose does not really matter to me as long as my warrior does not die often and die fast.

well, that’s it for now.

thanks again for reading!

back for more!

15th solo arena game done!

tuesday morning, gmt +8:00am
6.55am entered solo arena queue
6.57am found match
7.06am game ended
around 7 minutes match

legacy of the foefire
red 159 – 510 blue
56 engineer 90 – 115 mesmer 55
19 warrior 50 – 110 warrior (me) 33
16 thief 40 – 90 warrior 59
49 thief 30 – 60 mesmer 42
37 warrior 10 – 50 warrior 57

fast match, i think because our team had some really good players! well, not me though, because i am a casual player.

i think our rank 55 mesmer is one of the better players, the character name is Countless and i think i heard that name in the forums before. our rank 57 warrior did well defending our home point too. very study, can last quite long 1 vs 3 i think until our help arrived. everyone else was awesome too! i think we just wiped them clean.

overall i think our team had good communication.

6.58am
me: hi team!
42 mesmer: Hallo
55 mesmer: ill go far

6.59am
me: ok i go mid then
me: do we rush lord at 350?
57 warrior: ill get home
59 warrior: luke u shouts?
57 warrior: ew
57 warrior: no
59 warrior: ahh must be diff luke

(match begins soon)
6.59am
me: ok gl hf team!
59 warrior: escorting home

7.00am
59 warrior: 3 home
me: test lag (in /say chat, i was lagging suddenly. T_T)

7.01am
59 warrior: omw banner for u
me: sorry i lagging

7.02am
59 warrior: thnx
(our 59 warrior was down at mid, i threw down all my burst to help)
me: wah sweet reveneg?
(i thought he used vengence and rallied with sweet revenge? but who uses that? O_O)

7.03am
me: thief got in our base
(le me trying to stop the thief attacking our npc)
rank 57 warrior: dont help me at home
rank 57 warrior: go (in /say green chat)
me: ooo ok sorry
(i proceed to leave base in our rank 57 warrior care and off to mid i go)

7.05am
we were fighting at mid, well, more like a slaughter fest to be honest, we just mowed them down like hot knife through butter.
rank 55 mesmer: all casters and soldiers are down if we need to rush later
me: wah! O_O
59 warrior: incmid

7.06am
(our score is 350 now)
me: i guess we can rush? O_O
rank 59 warrior: k
(match is over when i saw our mesmers illusions at their lord room)
me: wah h
me: fast
me: thansk team!
rank 59 warrior: lol nice

overall, i think our team had more higher ranked players, which may loosely translate into more experienced players, we had 3 warriors 2 mesmers, though they had 2 warriors, 2 thief and 1 engineer.

seems like more heavies and illusions, plus mostly experienced and good players (not me, i just riding along!) secured the match for us.

okies! that is all for now! i need to walk me dogs now.

thanks for reading!

hmmm okies i tried out another
16th solo arena game done!

tuesday morning gmt +8:00
8.25am entered solo arena queue
8.27am found match
8.40am game ended
about 10 minutes match

temple of the silent storm
red 419 – 500 blue
47 ranger 205 – 155 guardian 44
34 ele 140 – 125 necro 54
57 guardian – 115 necro 36
53 necro – 110 necro 28
33 war (me) – 100 ranger 40

i think we got communication, just that they had better players i guess. >.<

8.27am
me: hi team!

8.28am
34 ele: hi
me: what’s our plan, team?
me: wow … 3 necros on their team O_O
47 ranger: ill go mid
57 guardian: so will i

8.29am
57 guardian: did the other guy just rage?
(one of our team members left)
me: lets look positively
34 ele: i’ll go mid
57 guardian: thats gnna suck
me: maybe he swap profession ahah
57 guardian: i hope so
me: who take home? O_O
me: i go home then

(team member came back)
me: yay
57 guardian: whew
me: gl hf team!
57 guardian: thank god

(match kicks off)
me: ok i at home

8.31am
57 guardian: keep two team
57 guardian: gj
(i think we won battle at mid and was holding 2 points)
me: k i go back hgome
(earlier, i capped home, then i ran out, caught a glimpse of their home defender so i went to help mid)

57 guardian: remember bonuses
57 guardian: gotta get stillness

8.32am
me: 2 at home
34 ele: 3
57 guardian: stilness gogo

8.33am
34 ele: 4 home

8.34am
me: o sorry i lost home
(le me got condition bursted down by them necros eventually after a long battle)

8.35am
57 guardian: bottom at 8 30
(i went down to the basement to join the basement fight, but they … they overpowered us in the end, wiped us all. hmmmm)

8.38am
57 guardian: …
57 guardian: gg

scores were red 390 – 443 blue at then.
that is all for now.
okies maybe enough solo arena games for me for the time being.

thanks for reading!

17th solo arena game!

tuesday evening gmt +8:00
ended 6.59pm
around 9.5 minutes game, 5.33 remaining

spirit watch
red 480 – 500 blue
43 thief 115 – 110 warrior 32
33 war (me) 75 – 100 necro 59
39 engineer 60 – 100 guardian 49
42 guardian 55 – 95 ranger 42
31 necro 35 – 60 elementalist 33

ending scores seems close, but they were better at killing us.

there was one time, the ranger chased me down, put me down eventually.
perhaps i should have attempted to fight the spirit ranger 1 vs 1 instead of running away. if i wanna run away, i should have activated my signet of rage. duh! big fail for me back there. >.<

hmmmm i’m tired of writing so i’ll post the scores here instead. for record. maybe can compile them after a lot of games, or at least until the next big patch.

18th solo arena game!
wednesday morning gmt +8:00
found match after 3 minutes of waiting
match ended 9.01am
almost 8 mins game with 7.05 remaining

forest animal map

red 217 – 500 blue
33 warrior (me) 190 – 140 ranger 40
41 guardian 155 – 80 ranger 42
34 ranger 140 – 75 necro 53
21 thief 80 – 55 necro 22
31 ranger 35 – 10 engineer 47

hmmm what went wrong?
from the scores, it seems like we kill them more often.
i think we forgot to hold the points, or just bad luck with the points.

at start, we went 1 home, 4 mid, we cleared and capped mid but they had more people on our home and we lost home. then we kinda scattered after that.

it is like, our point defenders are not good at bunkering long enough until help arrives or i dunno. i think at some point, some of us are spawn camping blue. but not enough people capping the points.

i survived the team fights, helped to win some team fights, but in the end, holding the points, killing animals matters more in this map.

well at least i tried and had some fun bashing people around with my hammer.

19th solo arena game!

thursday morning gmt +8:00
found match after 3 minutes
match ended 8.58am
time remaining 04:43
about 10 minutes game

red 450 – 500 blue
24 ranger 145 – 220 engineer 48
54 mesmer 75 – 215 warrior 34
46 mesmer 70 – 210 engineer 31
31 guardian 65 – 165 warrior (me) 33
42 guardian 55 – 100 elementalist 41

the game started off with red players 4 vs 5 blue players.
their 5th member came in a bit later and we were leading in points.

later on they caught up though.
at 8.56am scores were red 384 – 383 blue
they captured tranquility and that really helped with their points.

if they had 5 members from start till finish we might have lose the match.

20th solo arena game!

8.41am game ended
06.23 remaining so about 9 minutes game

skyhammer
red 243 – 502 blue
53 warrior 105 – 216 mesmer 50
31 necro 55 – 213 mesmer 21
23 theif 45 – 200 engineer 47
33 war (me) 34 – 135 thief 45
22 ele 15 – 125 ranger 45

hmmm they beat us completely.
better at rotating points also.
and controlling the hammer.

their mesmer, engineer very good at pushing and pulling people off ledges eheheheh.